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Crime & Public Safety
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976, Georgia has executed 60-plus convicted criminals.
Death as punishment hotly debated
Death by elecrocution (1924-72; 1976-2000)
John Eldon Smith
Ivon Ray Stanley
Roosevelt Green Jr.
Victim: Teresa Carol Allen
Van Roosevelt Solomon
Jerome Bowden
William Boyd Tucker
Timothy W. McCorquodale
Warren McCleskey
Victim: Atlanta Police officer Frank Schlatt
Thomas Dean Stevens
William Henry Hance
Nicholas Lee Ingram
Darrell Gene Devier
Larry Grant Lonchar
Ellis Wayne Felker
Victim: Evelyn Joy Ludlam
Death by lethal injection (2000-present)
Terry Michael Mincey
Victim: Paulette Riggs
Jose Martinez High
Fred Marion Gilreath Jr.
Byron Ashley Parker
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
Georgia's Death Row: Those executed and their victims
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Since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976, Georgia has executed 60-plus convicted criminals under sentence of death. Debate continues regarding capital punishment in Georgia and around the U.S. as those who protest the practice contend that it's exactly the sort of "cruel and unusual punishment" banned by the Constitution while those in favor of capital punishment argue that the victims of those convicted had lives and futures, too, that were criminally taken from them. Here's a look at some of those who were put to death in Georgia and their victims.

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Atlanta Dream center Brittney Griner (42) fights for possession during the first half of a WNBA basketball first-round playoff game against the Indiana Fever at Gateway Center Arena on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2024, in Atlanta. 
(Miguel Martinez/ AJC)
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Credit: Miguel Martinez-Jimenez

PHOTOS: Dream defeat Fever to open WNBA Playoffs

The Atlanta Dream defeated the Indiana Fever 80-68 to take Game 1 of their best-of-three first-round WNBA playoff series on Sunday

Georgia coach Kirby Smart (center) gives Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton a play during the closing minute of the second quarter against Tennessee at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in Knoxville, Tenn. (Jason Getz/AJC)
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Credit: Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com

PHOTOS: Georgia visits Knoxville to take on Tennessee

The Georgia Bulldogs traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, to take on the Tennessee Volunteers in an early-season key matchup in the SEC.

Georgia Tech wide receivers Dean Patterson (left) and Malik Rutherford celebrate after a successful two-point conversion  during the second half against the Clemson Tigers on Saturday at Bobby Dodd Stadium. (Jason Allen/AJC)
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Credit: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

PHOTOS: Georgia Tech defeats Clemson on the final play

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeat the Clemson Tigers on a field goal as time ran out, 24-21.

Georgia faithful drove to Knoxville on Saturday to cheer on the Bulldogs as they play Tennessee in Knoxville. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
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Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

PHOTOS: Georgia visits Rocky Top, Tennessee, for SEC showdown

Georgia visits Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., for SEC clash with Volunteers.

Sequoyah wide receiver Brook Darling catches a pass during the first half against Sprayberry at Skip Pope Stadium in Canton on Friday, Sept. 12th, 2025. (Oscar Guevara Saenz for the AJC)
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Credit: Oscar Guevara Saenz

PHOTOS: Sequoyah vs. Sprayberry high school football

Sequoyah defeated Sprayberry, 63-20, in a football game at Sequoyah High School in Canton on Friday.

Fayetteville Firefighter Noah Maupin makes it to the summit of Stone Mountain during the annual 9/11 memorial on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.   Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Credit: Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal

PHOTOS: Metro Atlanta remembers victims of Sept. 11

Two events in metro Atlanta commemorate the 2977 lives lost in deadly terrorist attacks in on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Cobb County fire department hangs a U.S. flag from their fire trucks as a procession for fallen Dekalb County Firefighter Preston Fant arrives at West Cobb Funeral Home on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Ben Hendren for the AJC)
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Credit: Ben Hendren

PHOTOS: Fallen DeKalb firefighter honored with processional through metro Atlanta

Several metro Atlanta fire departments paid their respects Wednesday morning to fallen DeKalb County firefighter Preston Fant with a somber procession to a Marietta funeral ho...

Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer Strider throws a pitch against Chicago Cubs during the first inning of a baseball game at Truist Park, Tuesday, September 9, 2025, in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
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PHOTOS: Braves fall to Cubs, 6-1

The Braves fell to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, 6-1, at Truist Park.